Re: Date's First Great Blunder

"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
news:407d5ed4.13834002_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:21:41 GMT, "Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >What is metadata for a type, other than the type itself?
>
> I disagree. A type is a set of values and a set of operators but the
> metadata of a type are things like the name of the type, the name of
> the possreps, the name of the possrep's components and their types,
> etc.

OK, I can buy that. I think for purposes of this discussion that we can
ignore those other things - though come to think of it, POSSREP will
probably creep into the discussion. I was trying to start simply.
Received on Wed Apr 14 2004 - 21:50:51 CEST